A night-stalking rapist responsible for as many as eight attacks in Manhattan and New Jersey struck again early yesterday, police said.

The knife-toting predator – described by victims as a thinly built Hispanic man in his mid-20s, about 5-foot-6, with curly hair – raped a 26-year-old woman.

The man attacked the woman around 4 a.m. yesterday after she left two friends at Cain, a trendy lounge on West 27th Street between 10th and 11th avenues.

The fiend is believed to have attacked two other Manhattan women since September, sexually molesting one and raping the other. He is also linked to five New Jersey sex attacks in Hillside, Elizabeth, Newark and North Bergen.

Yesterday’s victim was approached from behind on West 24th Street. The attacker flashed a knife and forced her into a car parked nearby, where he raped and sodomized her, police said.

Afterwards, he forced her into the trunk, drove around and pulled her out and raped her again. He again forced her into the trunk and drove her around until stopping at 7 a.m. in Elizabeth, and threw her out of the car.

The rape was similar to one that occurred last Halloween when a 29-year-old financial analyst was raped after leaving a party at Crobar in Chelsea.